Alan Sokal Quotes

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

Alan Sokal

Quotes to Explore

There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

Eddie Redmayne
- Work
- Money
- Acting
Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

Felicia Day
- World
- Work
- Trying
I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!

Venus Williams
- Bad
- Know
- Food
Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.

Flip Wilson
- Good
- House
- Singing
I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
- Health
- Day
- Stronger
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

A. R. Rahman
- Movie
- Freedom
- Challenge